Burn the house down
by Gareth Fouche · in General Discussion · 03/17/2005 (3:38 am) · 7 replies
This is quite an interesting rant from some of the top names.
*Warning, a bit of swearing*
crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/03/burn_the_house_.html
Makes you feel quite glad to be an indie eh? If even the big players are feeling it, imagine what it must be like for the rest of the developers out there.Yet another reason to thank GG for giving us a different option.
*Warning, a bit of swearing*
crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/03/burn_the_house_.html
Makes you feel quite glad to be an indie eh? If even the big players are feeling it, imagine what it must be like for the rest of the developers out there.Yet another reason to thank GG for giving us a different option.
#3
03/17/2005 (6:56 am)
I read all the post GG blogs and it made me feel great that I am indie, and a little sickened that people are now starting to talk about what quite a few of us realized 4-5 years ago. 
#4
Although in all honesty, Greg Costikyan was complaining about this years ago. Warren Spector kinda surprised me... he's the same guy who said at GDC a year or two ago how he'd be perfectly happy just cranking out licensed game after licensed game for the rest of his career.
03/17/2005 (8:24 am)
LOL - I felt the same way, Joe.Although in all honesty, Greg Costikyan was complaining about this years ago. Warren Spector kinda surprised me... he's the same guy who said at GDC a year or two ago how he'd be perfectly happy just cranking out licensed game after licensed game for the rest of his career.
#6
I'm more glad than ever to be an indie. I look at making games as more of an interactive art form than a big business--I'd like to remain intentionally naive about that.
But there were some good points from both 'sides' (I read several articles there and all the replies); rich people of course can afford to talk this way (especially about piracy, since cuts into their profits are minimal), and the day after the rants, they return to being part of 'the problem.' Complaining changes nothing; it just (sometimes) makes us feel better. I seriously doubt they will "Burn the house down," becuz they are still inside it. (I had a dream a month ago where I burned down a WalMart ;) )
I'll have respect for them when they put their money where their mouths are (i.e. give up some of the success--from the industry they now hate, which made them rich--and actually start working towards building another system which is so overly dependent upon faceless, monstrous, greedy publishers).
Until that happens, any change will come from us.
03/17/2005 (3:48 pm)
Thanks for the link. Thought-provoking stuff. I'm more glad than ever to be an indie. I look at making games as more of an interactive art form than a big business--I'd like to remain intentionally naive about that.
But there were some good points from both 'sides' (I read several articles there and all the replies); rich people of course can afford to talk this way (especially about piracy, since cuts into their profits are minimal), and the day after the rants, they return to being part of 'the problem.' Complaining changes nothing; it just (sometimes) makes us feel better. I seriously doubt they will "Burn the house down," becuz they are still inside it. (I had a dream a month ago where I burned down a WalMart ;) )
I'll have respect for them when they put their money where their mouths are (i.e. give up some of the success--from the industry they now hate, which made them rich--and actually start working towards building another system which is so overly dependent upon faceless, monstrous, greedy publishers).
Until that happens, any change will come from us.
#7
Its funny, I remember reading something similar from John Carmack (sorry, can't remember the link), saying that sometimes he envies the small guys working in their garages, that he sometimes feels trapped by his success. And that he thinks that, given the tools available, the time is ripe for the "little guy" to come out with some unique, exiting, innovative stuff (hmmmm, sounds oddly familiar.... ;-) )
But I don't feel hugely sympathetic. As T G said, Carmack has boat loads of cash, if he wanted to retire and work at home in his garage, he could.
03/17/2005 (11:32 pm)
True dat.Its funny, I remember reading something similar from John Carmack (sorry, can't remember the link), saying that sometimes he envies the small guys working in their garages, that he sometimes feels trapped by his success. And that he thinks that, given the tools available, the time is ripe for the "little guy" to come out with some unique, exiting, innovative stuff (hmmmm, sounds oddly familiar.... ;-) )
But I don't feel hugely sympathetic. As T G said, Carmack has boat loads of cash, if he wanted to retire and work at home in his garage, he could.
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